Sense of humour Quotes

A sense of humour is common sense dancing.

— Clive James

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

— Oscar Wilde

I refuse not to have a sense of humour.

— Ken Livingstone

Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

— Gary Lineker

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

— Khalil Gibran

Never forget your sense of humour.

— Christopher Plummer

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

— Paloma Faith

“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

— W. Somerset Maugham

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

— Elvis Costello

Robbie minced into my life and he had the same oddball sense of humour as me. It was love at first laugh.

— Ayda Field

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

— Carolyn Wells

You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.

— Carol Thatcher

“(I’ve often noticed that people equate ‘having a sense of humour’ with ‘being an insensitive moron’.) This”

— Sophie Kinsella

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a…

— Shirley Henderson

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't…

— John Barrowman

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell…

— Ray Liotta

Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant.…

— Alex Kapranos

We seem to have lost our British sense of humour. It's a great shame. We have to be so careful nowadays; we…

— David Jason

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as…

— Norman Wisdom

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when…

— Stephen Sondheim

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour…

— Edward Dowden

I'd always wanted to do costume drama, but period dramas often become very wooden. Just because they're born in the 1400s, all…

— Jodie Comer

I've never sat down with the intent of trying to shock or anything like that; it just so happens that the sense…

— Jim Jefferies

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a…

— Robert Winston

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has…

— Theodore Zeldin

“If my story means anything, it is that people are very often too quick to judge a person by the way they…

— Susan Boyle

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And…

— Danielle de Niese

My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of…

— John B. S. Haldane

My humour is a mix of my parents'. I get the chatty, anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my…

— Sarah Millican

His beauty isnt't what makes me love him more with each day that passes by but his sense of humour, his sweetness,…

— Josephine

“And I think for a moment, because people don't actually ask that very often. They tell me what they think I feel…

— Rachael Lucas

“we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we find a way…

— Adrienne Kress

“Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in…

— Diriye Osman

“Gillian had bought the table and chairs and beds, the whole of the family furniture second-hand weekly down in the open air…

— Annette J Dunlea

PISCES - The Partner for Life (February 19 to March 20) Caring and kind. Smart. Likes to be the centre of attention.…

— Anonymous

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As two former empires, both with distinct identities and a strong sense of national pride, there is an island mentality in Iran…

— Lois Pryce

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless…

— Mohsin Hamid